Rental Machines Licensing

Tenant machines backed up with a rental license installed on the tenant backup server do not consume the Veeam Cloud Connect service provider license installed on the SP backup server.

If a tenant backs up a server or workstation with a rental license of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux, the SP can host cloud backups of that server or workstation with no additional license fee for Veeam Cloud Connect Backup.

Likewise, if a tenant backs up a VM with a rental license of Veeam Backup & Replication, the SP can host cloud backups of that VM with no additional license fee for Veeam Cloud Connect Backup.

With this functionality, SPs who manage Veeam backup infrastructure on the tenant side can deliver a complete managed backup service, including backup to the cloud, for a single license fee based on the protected machine type, regardless of its size. There is no need to pay an additional license fee for Veeam Cloud Connect Backup.

To use this functionality, the SP and tenant must make sure that the following conditions are met:

Creates a backup of a physical or virtual machine with a Veeam Agent backup job.

Creates a copy of a VM backup with a backup copy job configured in Veeam Backup & Replication.

Creates a copy of a Veeam Agent backup with a backup copy job configured in Veeam Backup & Replication.

If the listed conditions are met, machines whose backups tenants create in a cloud repository are considered as rental machines. Veeam Backup & Replication running on the SP backup server counts rental machines according to the following rules:

Rental machines do not consume the Instances counter in the SP license.

Rental machines are not included in monthly license usage reports for the SP license.

If a tenant creates a backup in a cloud repository with a backup copy job that uses a Veeam Agent backup as a source, the backed-up Veeam Agent computer will be considered as a rental machine only if the following conditions are met:

The source Veeam Agent backup is created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 or later, or Veeam Agent for Linux 2.0 or later with a rental license installed.

The copy of the Veeam Agent backup is created in the cloud repository by Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 or later (with any type of license installed).

Machines whose backups were created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 or earlier and copied to a cloud repository by Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 or later are not considered as rental machines.

For example, Tenant 1 uses Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with rental licenses installed to back up 2 VMs and 1 server to the cloud repository. Tenant 2 uses Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with subscription licenses installed to back up 6 VMs and 2 servers to the cloud repository. In this case, the SP license will be consumed by 6 backed-up VMs and 2 servers processed by Tenant 2. 2 VMs and 1 server processed by Tenant 1 will be considered as rental machines and will not appear in the SP license.

In the tenant machine counts of the SP backup console, as well as in the SP Veeam Cloud Connect report, Veeam Backup & Replication will display the total number of 8 backed-up VMs and 3 servers — the number of machines processed by Tenant 2 plus the number of rental machines processed by Tenant 1.